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This report examines the globalisation of the Australian mining industry, which is often not well understood amongst commentators and policy-makers. The authors find that Australian mining has grown well beyond Australia&rsquo;s borders, powered by world-leading knowledge and t...

Every year, Canadian based think-tank The Fraser Institute produces a survey of mining company executives to determine which jurisdictions around the world are most attractive to the mining sector. The survey is watched closely by industry insiders to see where respective juris...

Last year, we picked 2012 as the bottom of the Australian minerals IPO cycle. We were wrong - with 2013 subsequently bringing the poorest performance of the sector in the past decade. This continued decline raises the very significant question of whether IPOs can sustain the lo...

There are two main paradigms of thought in resource depletion. Economists tend to subscribe to the 'opportunity cost' approach, seeing rising commodity prices as a sign of resource depletion. Scientists, in particular environmental scientists, look at resources as a 'fixed stoc...

Modern research science is a capital-intensive industry. Scientific resources and agencies are concentrated in wealthy developed nations with the economic and infrastructure base to support such fundamental endeavours. Nature, however, respects no such distinctions - and we com...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive fuels are currently a major input into the Australian electricity sector. Accordingly, climate change mitigation policies represent a systematic risk to investment in electricity generation assets. Although the Australian government introduced car...

Professor Pietro Guj has been invited to become an 'Expert Advisor' to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and recently to be a key speaker to their "Natural Resource Taxation in the Asia-Pacific Region" to be held in Jakarta on August 11-13, 2015.

This week Chris Gemell guests in to Strictly Boardroom to look for clues to share price performance among more than 100 exploration IPOs.
The ultimate success for a mineral exploration company is to locate an exciting new discovery that quickly progresses from first drill intersection towards a low-cost operating mine.
For all but very few exploration companies, however, such success does not occur immediately, if indeed at all.

Recent CET Geoscience Honours Graduate, Matthew Kanakis, produces a landmark study which will interest both gold explorers and investors equally.
The outcome, put simply shows that instead of costs falling as mine grade increased; there was no easily discernible relationship between costs and grade despite the abundance of cost and grade data in the study (which covered the information reported by companies throughout the July to September and October to December periods in 2013).

THIS week Allan Trench acts as unofficial messenger for the ground-breaking UNCOVER initiative – seeking to unlock the hidden mineral wealth across the unexplored frontiers of Australia.
Strictly Boardroom suspects that many readers would have already heard of the UNCOVER initiative, an emerging collaborative effort being championed across industry, state and federal geoscience organisations and by universities alike. For those readers reading of UNCOVER for the first time, the concept owes its origin to a Theo Murphy Think Tank* convened by the Australian Academy of Science.

Gold price “out of the doldrums” but will an increase in royalties be beneficial? Pietro Guj (CET/UWA) and Allan Kelly (Doray Minerals) talk to Jonathan Barrett of the Financial Review with their opinions.